Word: demand
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hotel's rococo, crystal and gilt Grand Salle before moving behind the closed doors of conference room No. 5. Leading off, Thuy set a strident tone that prevailed all week. He accused the U.S. of "monstrous crimes" and repeated the "primordial and most pressing" Communist demand for a total and unconditional end to U.S. bombing of the North. Harriman, in an opening statement that was edited by Defense Secretary Clark Clifford at the request of the President, noted that all U.S. bombing would stop "if our restraint is matched by restraint on the other side." But, he added...
Most basically, the study demonstrates a new emphasis on making the most of one's capabilities to work and to learn. Students want jobs which demand responsibility and initiative; parallels can be drawn between the findings of this study and the success of IGS itself...
Restraining Influence. Although most of IDA's projects are classified, they include work on such technical questions as ballistic-missile accuracy, surface-to-air missile guidance and the Nike-X warhead. IDA lately has broadened out to provide research on nonmilitary problems. It has studied the probable demand for a supersonic airliner, and is negotiating a research contract with the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Officials of IDA argue that if they were free to talk about its classified work, they could prove that the Institute has frequently been more of a restraining influence than an escalating pressure...
...Department quit at just the wrong moment; since then horses have staged a surprising comeback, now total more than 7,000,000, of which 85% are saddle horses. Nor has the demand by any means peaked. Nearly every breed is still on the increase, from Tennessee Walking Horses (91,000) to Shetland ponies (119,000). Arabians - the currently chic horse in many places - stood at 16,015 in 1959; today there are 46,266 registered in the U.S. and Canada. The Appaloosa, the unusually spot ted horse that got much of its vogue from Walt Disney...
Hard Hat & Breeches. "Our whole American civilization is built on the horse; it's part of our heritage," says Los Angeles' Don Burt, who was voted best horse judge in the U.S. last year. "As we get more citified, there's more demand for release, for open spaces. Now that people can afford horses, it's bound to grow." Increasingly, families are discovering that a brisk morning canter is not only fine exercise; it also opens up new country-even in relatively built-up areas...